US2371093A - Method of making coffee tablets - Google Patents
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A23—FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS; TREATMENT THEREOF, NOT COVERED BY OTHER CLASSES
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meted-Ma. 6, 1945 2,371,693 7 METHOD or MAKING corner: manners Walter W. Willison, Chicago, Ill.
No Drawing. Application August 13,
Serial No. 498,593
, 2Claims. (01. 99-66) There has long existed a demand for coffee 1 packaged in small-units each adapted to make one cup of coffee, and various ways have heretofore been suggested to accomplish this. However, because of the peculiar nature of the coffee bean and of the extreme difficulty of preserving in the same a substantial degree of freshness,
particularly after it is ground, there has here-" tofore been no commercially successful solution of the problem.
The object of the present invention istomake it possible commercially to distribute coffee small units at a low cost for the coffee itself, without employing containers that'are expensive or require costly or time-taking operations in packaging the units, and without requiring the a user to be inconveniently careful in order to prevent deterioration of unused coifee once a package of small units has been opened.
As in Patent No. 1,535,233, with respect to which I was one of the applicants, I put the coffee into tablet form. However, instead of compressinganumber of whole beans to form a and there is no interlocking of the grains or particles so tie them together mechanically. The result is that heavy, costly machinery is needed to v v mold masses of steel cut particles into tablets; the combined crushing'and molding process must be carried out slowly to enable air from 'ruptured interior cells to escape; and the tablets themselves are weak and crumbly, Since the interior grains or particles in such a tablet may be little changed from their original state, the
rate of release of the-sugars, oils and waxes is not the same for all particles when a tablet is broken up in the process of brewing a cup of coiiee. For that reason, two cups of coffee brewed in the same way from tablets out of the same package may taste quite differently from each other; Also,'because of theffragility of the tablets, it is not easy to package them or to desired degree of fineness, I pass the grains or particles between pressure rolls which, through the expenditure of only a little power, thoroughly crush them and roll them flat into thin flakes;
all of the occluded airbeing dissipated" in this operation. When a measured quantity of these flakes is placed in a mold,'by flowing directly into the same from the crushing rolls, if desired, they lie flat to a considerable extent and,
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like the scales of a fish, overlap each other. Consequentl-y, when the loose mass is pressed down by means of a plunger or the like, portions of many flakes are gripped between other flakes and the whole mass is mechanically tied together to a greater or lesser extent. For this reason the tablets are not as brittle and possess greater capacity to resist disintegrating forces than do tablets molded from whole beans or ordinary'steel cut grains or particles.
It will be seen that, because the crushing of the cells is done by the pressure rolls, all that need be done in the final operationis to compact the loose masses into tablet form. This last step requires very little power compared to that which is needed to crush and simultaneously to mold whole beans or ordinary steel cut grains.
Y Also, because the molding process isnot slowed down in order'to give the air in the coffee material, as is the case with whole beans and ordinary steel cut grains or particles, time to escape, this step may be an instantaneous one; thereby effecting a great saving of time and a further lowering of the cost of manufacturing the tablets.
My new tablets are also quite different in other respects from those previously made. They are harder and denser than those composed of whole beans or steel cut bean fragments. Because they are harder, they are more compact and, therefore, smaller than prior tablets of the same weight; so that a pound of my tablets, for example, takes up less shipping and storage space than does'a pound of any other kind of cofiee.
the individual particles toeach other than in any other tables-containing no extraneous bonding material; this being due to the fact that the fiake guard against breakage and consequent deterioration prior to using them.
In accordance with my invention, after roastlike particles have broad faces in contact with each other and to the further fact that the preliminary flaking has brought the sugars, oils and waxes right to those faces and ready to exude under a light molding pressure.
Notwithstanding the hard .and sturdy character of my tablets, they immediately break up on contact with water andrelease the oils and other Theresoluble constituents so that a brew oi exceptionally strong coiiee flavor is quickly made. 7
A further substantial saving is made possible through the elimination of costly containers and special packing processes now commonly em- My tablets may be ployed to' preserve coflee. placed in a cheap paper carton, each individual tablet or small group of tablets being wrappediin waxed paper or the like. As long as a tablet remains in its wrapper. it retains its freshness, so 10 that the opening of acarton does not expose'the coii'ee to conditions causing it to deteriorate. in other words, the carton may remain-open and the college will .remain iresh until used, as long as the wrapper about a tablet is not broken until it is to be used. p
I claim: r 1. The method of makina' strona. hard coiiee as'nms 2..1he method of making strong, hard coflee I tablets, which consists in roasting coflee beans,
dividing'them into small grains or particles, pass- I in: the latter between pressure rollers to crush tablets, which consists in roasting coiiee beans.
the same and flatten them until they are very thin compared with their lengths and widths,.
flowing a predetermined quantity 0! the crushed particles into a mold wherein many 01' them will lie with their faces in parallel planes and in overlapping relation to each other, and applying pressure to compact andsolidii'y themass. 1
WALTER w. wmuson.
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Cited By (8)
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US3511666A (en) * | 1967-01-11 | 1970-05-12 | Gen Foods Corp | Method of making a pelletized coffee brewing package |
US4852333A (en) * | 1986-11-25 | 1989-08-01 | Illycaffe' S.P.A. | Method for making a ground coffee discoid pad |
WO2004034797A1 (en) * | 2002-10-16 | 2004-04-29 | Mars, Incorporated | Process for the preparation of a coffee product |
US20100159086A1 (en) * | 2006-01-13 | 2010-06-24 | Gianpaolo Belloli | Product obtained from a powdered or granular material and process for obtaining the product |
US20100260915A1 (en) * | 2009-04-09 | 2010-10-14 | The Folgers Coffee Company | Ground roast coffee tablet |
US20100323083A1 (en) * | 2007-02-26 | 2010-12-23 | Gilles Rubinstenn | Method for compacting plant powders and products obtained therefrom |
US9474290B2 (en) | 2009-04-09 | 2016-10-25 | The Folger Coffee Company | Process of producing dual-compacted ground roast coffee tablet |
US11896025B2 (en) | 2018-10-01 | 2024-02-13 | The Folger Coffee Company | Coffee composition and items made therefrom |
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Cited By (15)
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US3511666A (en) * | 1967-01-11 | 1970-05-12 | Gen Foods Corp | Method of making a pelletized coffee brewing package |
US4852333A (en) * | 1986-11-25 | 1989-08-01 | Illycaffe' S.P.A. | Method for making a ground coffee discoid pad |
WO2004034797A1 (en) * | 2002-10-16 | 2004-04-29 | Mars, Incorporated | Process for the preparation of a coffee product |
US20060165845A1 (en) * | 2002-10-16 | 2006-07-27 | Mars Incorporated | Process for the preparation of a coffee product |
US20100159086A1 (en) * | 2006-01-13 | 2010-06-24 | Gianpaolo Belloli | Product obtained from a powdered or granular material and process for obtaining the product |
US8389036B2 (en) * | 2006-01-13 | 2013-03-05 | Gianpaola Belloli | Product obtained from a powdered or granular material and process for obtaining the product |
US20100323083A1 (en) * | 2007-02-26 | 2010-12-23 | Gilles Rubinstenn | Method for compacting plant powders and products obtained therefrom |
US8420150B2 (en) * | 2007-02-26 | 2013-04-16 | Eurotab | Compact plant powder product, method of making same, and use in preparing a hot drink |
US20100260915A1 (en) * | 2009-04-09 | 2010-10-14 | The Folgers Coffee Company | Ground roast coffee tablet |
US9474290B2 (en) | 2009-04-09 | 2016-10-25 | The Folger Coffee Company | Process of producing dual-compacted ground roast coffee tablet |
US9474291B2 (en) | 2009-04-09 | 2016-10-25 | The Folger Coffee Company | Process for producing compacted ground roast coffee tablet |
US9603376B2 (en) | 2009-04-09 | 2017-03-28 | The Folger Coffee Company | Ground roast dual compressed coffee tablet |
US9756869B2 (en) | 2009-04-09 | 2017-09-12 | The Folger Coffee Company | Ground roast dual compressed coffee tablet |
US11896025B2 (en) | 2018-10-01 | 2024-02-13 | The Folger Coffee Company | Coffee composition and items made therefrom |
US11903395B2 (en) | 2018-10-01 | 2024-02-20 | The Folger Coffee Company | Coffee composition and items made therefrom |
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